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Post by ECM on Sept 12, 2013 2:43:39 GMT -5
Hansel & Gretel: AWFUL
This movie is what happens when you make a Michael Bay film w/o Michael Bay and his ability to shoot action scenes.
(And the violence centered around children is borderline obscene.)
STAY FAR AWAY.
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Post by ECM on Sept 14, 2013 5:47:44 GMT -5
Outlander: The Seventh Warrior Meets Predator.
Entertaining, but that's about it. It's missing the scripts of either The Seventh Warrior (no wonder, as that's based on Crichton) or Predator; and the direction of both as well, both being, ostensibly, products of John McTiernen.
(It could also stand to be shorter or better-paced, even though it doesn't even reach 2-hours running time.)
Also: wtf doesn't Jim Caviezel get more work?? He can't be that badly type-cast by Passion, can he??
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Post by arcadehero on Sept 17, 2013 13:25:46 GMT -5
Last movie I saw in theaters was taking the family to see Monsters U.
It was entertaining. But I only needed to watch it once. CG movies aren't all that impressive anymore, so much looks like other CG and of course this was a sequel coming years later and I couldn't recall much of anything from the first one.
My wife took the kids to see the Despicable Me 2 and they seemed to love it.
My brother enjoyed Wolverine.
Now ECM, give us your thoughts on the most EPIC movie of EPIC movies - STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (HD DIRECTORS CUT)!
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Post by arcadehero on Nov 16, 2013 10:22:42 GMT -5
Saw Ender's Game with my brother last night. I think some of the critics are being too harsh on the movie. It is not perfect, the major flaw was that it has been dumbed down for the masses (there is a surprising lack of technobabble for a sci-fi movie) and the passage of time is muddled but apart from that we both enjoyed it. The Zero-G Battle School scenes were great - they got the major ones I remember from the book. Also the space battle scenes with the drones is pretty neat to watch. Too bad the movie is flopping or ppl are bashing it just because they don't like Orson Card.
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Post by ECM on Nov 16, 2013 14:20:21 GMT -5
I highly, highly doubt it's flopping because of OSC. (There are people bashing it because of that, sure, but I don't think, for a second, this is going to have much of an effect on the box office take since word of mouth>all.)
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Post by arcadehero on Nov 16, 2013 14:26:23 GMT -5
I mean its a combo of both. While I doubt the LGBT boycott is having that much of an effect, outside of Utah that stupid thing is brought up.
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Post by arcadehero on May 17, 2014 20:44:56 GMT -5
This thread needs sum updatin'
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Post by ECM on May 17, 2014 21:41:57 GMT -5
Godzilla: IT SUCKS, don't see it.
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Post by Borsalio on May 18, 2014 11:13:30 GMT -5
I guess it's up to me to disagree, then.
Godzilla: IT'S MEDIOCRE, don't pay to see it.
Stuff does happen in this movie, it just takes a long time. Lots of good actors here (Cranston, Watanabe, Strathairn), but they're wasted as they don't do a whole lot besides standing around and commenting on stuff. Most of the movie just follows Quicksilver as he moves around the Pacific Ocean and watches lots of people get killed. The ending is overly saccharine and unintentionally hilarious.
On the other hand, there are some really cool visuals (the halo drop especially), and the ten seconds or so that Godzilla is actually on screen are pretty fun. If you want a monster movie, go watch Pacific Rim. If you want a disaster movie where the disaster is actually monsters instead of a meteor or something, then you might go for this.
Also, I swear the town in the train scene is re-used from Man of Steel, when Supes fights the two underling Kryptonians.
EDIT: Might as well mention the other summer movie I've seen: Captain America 2 was totes awesome and I'll be surprised if anything else this summer is better (but I'm hoping Guardians matches it).
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Post by ECM on May 18, 2014 12:29:01 GMT -5
"Hi, I'm Matt, and I like long walks on the beach, lame characters, and thinking I'm being contrarian when I'm actually echoing the same complaints other people made before reaching the "it sucks" conclusion."*
(Pro-tip: it sucks--if you end up paying $10-15 to see this--which is the context--it sucks and you were robbed. It's value as a free movie might be different, but since seeing it for free is not a near-term possibility, you're fucking fired.)
*Literally: Zig and I had this exact conversation yesterday because all of your points are painfully obvious to those with intact brain stems, minus the conclusion, perhaps, that it's worth seeing for free, etc., because, seriously, that's 2-hours you're not getting back. Ever. So unless your time is of no value--and this might very well be the case--you might want to think twice about burning 2-hours of it on a pointless, brainless, and dull film that iss upstaged by the pointless, brainless, and dull film known as Pacific Rim in every way.
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Post by ECM on May 18, 2014 12:38:43 GMT -5
Captain America The Winter Soldier: not as good as the first Cap--far more dreary, dark, and pessimistic, where the first was fresh, vibrant, and, it not unique, possessing a certain charm--but still pretty entertaining, if overlong and riddled with a Marvel movie specialty--MASSIVE, GAPING, PLOTHOLES--which the primary audience for these films--children--will never notice.
(Still, you have to appreciate the (probably unintentional) slam on Obama's drone warfare.)
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Post by Borsalio on May 18, 2014 12:41:32 GMT -5
No, I was agreeing with you. That was the joke: I staged it as if I disagreed, when I was really just saying it was a slightly lesser degree of bad.
Essentially, my one praise of the film is that it has some cool special effects, which you should be expecting from a $160m movie anyway.
As for wasting 2 hours of my time, we see movies at the Alamo down here, meaning I at least get a decent meal out of the process, so it's less of a waste. I had to eat anyway.
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Post by ECM on May 18, 2014 12:43:27 GMT -5
Bram Stoker's Dracula: this movie *raped* the novel by turning Drac into a misunderstood, forlorn, anti-hero (where in the novel he's an unalloyed monster with no redeeming qualities whatsoever*), but anything with Gary Oldman is worth watching at least a half-dozen times.
(Plus it looks great, even while Keanu Reeves does his level best to ruin every scene he shares with the greatest living actor.)
*One of my all-time favorite novels.
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Post by ECM on May 18, 2014 12:44:05 GMT -5
No, I was agreeing with you. That was the joke: I staged it as if I disagreed, when I was really just saying it was a slightly lesser degree of bad. Essentially, my one praise of the film is that it has some cool special effects, which you should be expecting from a $160m movie anyway. As for wasting 2 hours of my time, we see movies at the Alamo down here, meaning I at least get a decent meal out of the process, so it's less of a waste. I had to eat anyway.
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Post by Borsalio on May 18, 2014 12:44:52 GMT -5
Oh, and on Cap, I think you were wondering this a while back: As for why Black Widow is somewhat needlessly in the movie, I think it was essentially a back-door pilot for her own film down the line. They needed a couple allies for Cap, so might as well use one that can helm her own movie eventually.
Still doesn't explain the lack of Hawkeye, I'll give you that. They did manage the best portrayal of Falcon that I've ever seen, but that bar was so low that it was on the ground.
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